Night Beyond The Night by Ware Joss

Author:Ware, Joss [Ware, Joss]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Paranormal, Horror, Adult, Dystopia, Zombie, Apocalyptic, Urban Fantasy
ISBN: 9780061734014
Google: EJaaKoCLmO4C
Amazon: 0061734012
Barnesnoble: 0061734012
Goodreads: 6547184
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2009-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Sage seemed a bit less annoyed today when Elliott and the others followed Lou into the computer room. She glanced up at them briefly and noticed Elliott. “You’re back. Where’s Jade?”

“She’ll be along in a bit,” Elliott said.

Sage gave Lou a disgruntled look as if it were his fault they were interrupting her, then returned to her work.

“If looks could kill,” Lou muttered with a grin. “She’s really good at that.”

“Don’t you ever let her out into the sunshine?” Wyatt asked in his off-handed manner. He didn’t have the greatest way with women. In fact, Elliott had always wondered how the sonofabitch had managed to get married.

Sage gave Wyatt a dark look from deep blue eyes, but said nothing as she presented them with her rigid back. Her fingers began to tap away again on one of the keyboards.

“Quent, you wanted to see the satellite images,” Lou said. “We still have them, and others. Theo and I monitored them until the satellite burned out about forty years ago.”

“I’d like to see them too,” Elliott said, wondering if actual proof of the worldwide destruction would make it easier or more difficult for him to accept it. “And then I have some things to show you that Jade and I picked up from a Stranger.”

“What? From a Stranger?” Lou stopped.

“We surprised him and managed to get away unscathed, and with not only his knapsack, but his vehicle as well.”

“Well, that’s a story I want to hear,” the old man said as he sat at one of the computers in a corner. It had two big screens and a keyboard so well used that all of the letter markings had faded away, but the elderly geek didn’t need them; he sat and typed rapidly, and with no indication of arthritis. “There aren’t too many people who are accosted by a Stranger and live to tell about it. But let me pull these images up for you first. I know you really need to see them to believe it.”

Elliott sat in a chair next to him and looked around. The room was empty of any decoration other than computer boxes and monitors. He saw no printers either, and wondered at that. On the plain white wall above Lou’s computer hung a California license plate that said WIXY 97, which happened to be the year he’d graduated from pre-med. Wixy? Elliott couldn’t help a smile. So that’s where that had come from. It was the only thing hanging anywhere in the room, and it roused his curiosity.

“What’s the license plate for?” he asked. “Is it from your car?”

Lou glanced up as his fingers continued to move, and he gave a little laugh. “Not my car. Just a plate we found. It’s hanging here as a memorial. Way back when we first started to put together this network”—he gestured to encompass the room—“we knew we had to keep it secret. Underground, so to speak.”

“Why would a computer network need to be kept secret?” Quent interrupted.

“Because the Strangers don’t want we mortals to become powerful again.

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